Agenda - 10-06-20; 6-c - Zoning Atlas Amendment – Master Plan Development Conditional Zoning District (MPD-CZ) for the Research Triangle Logistics Park (RTLP)

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Approved 9/2/2020 Kim Piracci: I don’t even know if that would help me. I know in other applications, models are considered even more 446 accurate than actual measurements and I don’t know if that is true in this case. What I feel like is I want to see a map 447 with arrows. This is where cars and trucks would go and this is where they would continue to go. It was mentioned 448 that there’s only a certain number of sq. ft. where traffic would be affected when this development is put in. Didn’t 449 DOT just put out some recent information? 450 451 Christa Greene: It was a response to what we submitted 2 weeks ago. It was a memo saying we concur with this or 452 we want an extra turn lane, it wasn’t any figures. All the figures were in the study. I can try to pull one up. 453 454 Craig Benedict: In your PowerPoint presentation you showed one of the maps showed how much traffic in the 455 morning and how much traffic in the evening and how much total traffic. Maybe you could pull that PowerPoint back 456 up to show those are the type of site traffic volumes that are available for the project and are part of the TIA. 457 458 Christa Greene: I pulled something up. This is showing the traffic in 2023 and this is the total traffic so it’s what’s out 459 there today including the site traffic. 460 461 David Blankfard: Does anybody else have conditions they would like to impose or have questions? I have one, I 462 have a problem with the exit onto Davis Road. I would like to impose a condition that exiting cannot happen onto 463 Davis Road and that a secondary entrance onto Old 86 be a condition. Whether somehow you take a right off the 464 service road and make a U-turn down the road or find another piece of property as time comes along, if you don’t 465 have that, you can still have a left turn right turn off of the service road during the early phases of this project. 466 467 Adam Beeman: Can I ask what your reasoning is? 468 469 David Blankfard: I think there’s going to be a lot of inconvenience and traffic problems on Davis Road. I think we’re 470 pushing for further and further into the Rural Buffer onto the greenway that’s out there by pushing this development 471 further and further out into the County. 472 473 Carrie Fletcher: I have a question, so I agree with you and my question, with property owners is this, you can’t tell me 474 who it is that is going to be your tenants, you can’t tell me what they’re going to make, or what they’re going to be 475 putting in these trucks. How do you know many trucks are going to be leaving the facility and when. How can you 476 tell DOT how many trucks are going to be leaving at specific times to do these studies? I agree then stay off Davis 477 Road, leave the residents to do when they have to leave to go to work and to take their kids to school and do these 478 things because I see that as a hardship for the residents out there if this project does go through. I don’t see a win 479 for the residents out there, because there are so many unknowns right now. 480 481 David Blankfard: Not to speak for the applicant but for this type of construction, there’s known quantities of what the 482 services can be and averages for all this kind of work. They’ve got a reasonable idea of what can happen inside of 483 that warehouse based on historical data. 484 485 Carrie Fletcher: I’m sure before they build out something as large as this they have to know statically how many 486 tenants can x number of shipments in and out under a certain amount of time every day, 365 days a year to make it 487 profitable for them. So they would have some kind of idea of what would need to come in and out of that building. I 488 agree, stay off Davis Road if possible. 489 490 Adam Beeman: I don’t believe staying off Davis Road is an option for this project. I personally drove down Old 86, 491 Ode Turner, Davis Road, I drove the service road, I went down and checked off everything and I understand that the 492 residents enjoy their rural setting. I personally don’t see any truck drivers choosing to swing a right on Davis and go 493 through down to Orange Grove Road, that’s wasting their fuel and time and they don’t have it. I really believe that 494 option off Davis, 1000 ft. they already have a church there it’s not like there’s not business coming off of that road as 495 it is. My opinion is that Davis Road is all or nothing for this project. I’m not against using Davis Road. 496 497 Michael Birch: Mr. Chair, if I may address your proposed condition. I understand and I know the issue of a driveway 498 on Davis was discussed last time but to be clear, DOT is requiring that cut on Davis. We certainly looked at the 499 possibility of access on 86 but we don’t have frontage on 86, if DOT wants to use their power of Eminent Domain to 500 condemn property and provide us access to 86, would approve a driveway permit there, that’s great. Forcing a U-501 27